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Title: The International library of famous literature, selections from the world's great writers, ancient, mediaeval, and modern with biographical and explanatory notes and critical essays by many eminent writers
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Garnett, Richard, 1835-1906 Vallée, Léon, 1850-1919 Brandl, Alois, 1855-1940 Mitchell, Donald Grant, 1822-1908
Subjects: Literature
Publisher: London : The Standard
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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wait till the end of the funeral masses; to wait alsoat the townhouse until the wealthy marriages were certified.Then he went with her to the suburbs, high up, into a roombrick-tiled and dingy, at the end of a long lobby full of otherrooms, noisy, dirty, quarrelsome. Housekeeping began at theoutset to be disgusting. So their happiness did not last long.Living as he did with other drunkards, he began to drink withthem. She, seeing how the women wept, lost courage : andwhile he was at the taproom she spent her time with herneighbors, listless, humiliated, cradling with endless queru-lousness the infant in her arms. It was thus she became sougly, and gained in the shops the miserable name of themonkey. The little shadow is still there, going to and fro before thewindow. Her slow steps can be heard in the filth of the side-walk ; she coughs a hollow cough, for the evening was rainyand chill. How long must she wait? Two or three timesalready she has laid her hand upon the door, but without
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ALPHONSE DAUDET STORIES BY ALPHONSE DAUDET. 8239 daring to open. At last, nevertheless, the thought that herchildren have nothing to eat takes the place of courage. Sheenters. But hardly has she passed the threshold when a loudburst of laughter stops her short. See, Valentin, the monkey.Indeed, she is very ugly with her locks dripping with rain, withthe pallor of long waiting and fatigue on her cheeks. See, Valentin, the monkey. Trembling, abashed, the poorwoman stands without motion. He jumps up, furious. What,she dare to come for him, then, to humiliate him, before hiscomrades ? Just wait, wait — you shall see ! And terribleto behold, with doubled fist, Valentin springs forward. Thewretched creature saves herself by running, while they hootat her. Valentin clears the door just behind her ; two stepsand he catches her at the street corner. All is dark — no oneis in sight. Ah, poor monkey. But no I Away from his boon companions the Parisianworkman is not wicked. Once face to face

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